Backpacking

Links and comments about backpacking, camping and long distance hiking at Two-Heel Drive

Danny Bernstein plans to be in southwest Virgina for a week’s worth of trail-related doings. Among the highlights: More than 190 miles of the Appalachian Trail are featured in a series of section hikes from Dennis Cove Road in Tennessee…

Gear Junkie Stephen Regenold had much more fun writing this piece for the New York Times than he had hiking the 27 miles (and 14,000 feet of elevation gain) in the notorious Devil’s Path west of *West Saugerties, New York.…

Update IV: A Florida man was found dead Monday, apparently having fallen from a cliff near Mirror Lake in eastern Yosemite Valley. ### UPDATE III: A friend of a couple who witnessed the accident posted this account. ### UPDATE II:…

Thumbing though my copy of the The Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Book this morning, I stopped on a page devoted to Andrew P. Hill, a San Jose painter and photographer responsible for securing protection of the stand of old-growth redwoods…

Henry Coe State Park is the only park in the Bay Area that allows camp-where-you-wanna backpacking. All the rest require reservations, and good luck getting a Saturday night at Big Basin or Sunol Wilderness if you haven’t paid for your…

A reader asks for recommendations for a California backpacking trip. The requirements: Leaving in June. 4-5 hours from the Bay Area. 25 miles in 4.5 days. The reader has hiked part of the Lost Coast and may decide to finish…

The standard advice we all ignore is: Never hike alone. It seems that since backpacking is a more highly complex kind of hiking, the directive to never go solo should be even more of an imperative. If this were true,…

Steve records a couple who tell how far you should poop from major water sources, plus other interesting details. From the script: EMILY RESSLER: And then another thing we like to talk about is what we call micro litter. And…